PHP: How to send HTTP response code?

Question

I have a PHP script that needs to make responses with HTTP response codes (status-codes), like HTTP 200 OK, or some 4XX or 5XX code.

How can I do this in PHP?

Answer 1

If you are here because of Wordpress giving 404's when loading the environment, this should fix the problem:

define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('../wp-blog-header.php');
status_header( 200 );
//$wp_query->is_404=false; // if necessary

The problem is due to it sending a Status: 404 Not Found header. You have to override that. This will also work:

define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);
require('../wp-blog-header.php');
header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
header("Status: 200 All rosy");